[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/8] winxp, installer: Ignore unsigned drivers

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue Jan 29 14:49:05 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:54:52PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:05:53PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> >> whats the difference between copyleft and free, as in Free Software?
>> >> Reading this, I don't see any:
>> >>
>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Types_of_copyleft_and_relation_to_other_licenses
>>
>> OK, I stand corrected about the exact definition of copyleft. :)
>>
>> Since you are stressing on this distinction, I imagine you know some
>> free drivers out there that are signed?
>
> Nope, but that does not mean they do not exist.

Well then I'm just not being very precise in my commit log. With the
API I'm proposing, Apps can easily decide to not use unsigned drivers
even if script supports it. So I don't see the need for Apps to have
to use a configuration parameter to disable this manually.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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